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Stated Meeting, April 5th, 1878. 
Present, 16 members. 
Vice-President, Mr. E. K. Pricg, in the chair. 
Letters of acknowledgment were received from U. 8, 
Naval Observatory, March 20 (100 and list); Leo Lesquer- 
eux, March 16 (100 and list); and the Chicago Historical 
Society, March 15 (100 and list). 
A letter acknowledging the receipt of boxes (4) of trans- 
missions for foreign distribution was received from the 
Smithsonian Institution. 
Letters of envoy were received from the Royal Institute, 
London, March 12; Mr. C. A. Kesselmeyer, March 17; Dr. T. 
Sterry Hunt, March 20; Mr. I. B. Pearce (Geol. Sur., Pa.), 
March 18; and Mr. W. B. Taylor, Washington, D. C., 
March 28, 1878. 
A letter applying for the Coal Slack prize was received 
from Mr. Benj. F’. Bee, dated Harwich, Mass., March 23. 
A circular letter was received from the University of 
Pavia. 
Donations for the Library were received from the R. Acad., 
Turin ; Geographical Society, and Annales des Mines, Revue 
Politique ; and Commercial Geographical Society, Bordeaux ; 
the editors of the Revista Euskara at Pamplona; R. Astro- 
nomical Society and London Nature; Dr. Fred. Bateman, Nor- 
wich, England; Mr. C. A. Kesselmeyer, Leipsic; Museum of 
Comp. Zool., Cambridge, Mass.; Mr. Samuel H. Scudder, 
Boston; D. T. S. Hunt, of Boston; Free Pub. Lib. New 
Bedford; Am. J. 8. and A.; Prof. W. A. Norton, New 
Haven; Franklin Institute, College of Pharmacy, Penn 
Monthly, Medical News, American Journal of Medical 
Sciences; Board of Com. of the Second Geological Survey of 
Pennsylvania ; Chief of U. 8. Engineers ; Mr. W. B. Taylor, 
Washington ; Dr. Robt. Peter, Lexington, Ky., and Minis- 
terio de Fomento, Mexico. 
An offer to sell to the Society a complete set of the Phil. 
